fanfoolishness:

Just imagine the advisors physically in the Fade, being taunted by the Nightmare:

***

“Ah, Josephine. You kill with a quill these days instead of a knife. You once delighted in the Game… you played it better than you meant to. I hear bloodied hands are the latest fashion in Orlais.”

“It was an accident,” she whispers.

“Still playing, I see, though it’s against yourself.”

***

“Leliana. What would you like me to say? You’ve already done so well, becoming that you feared all on your own. Why, you don’t need my help at all.”

“It’s who I was meant to be,” she says coldly.

“Yes, we’re in agreement there.”

***

“Cullen, Cullen, Cullen. It’s good to see you again. Remember your friends dying? Abominations in the streets? All thanks to your own mistakes, of course. I’ve so missed our little visits.”

“Andraste preserve me —”

“She didn’t help you then. I don’t know why you’d expect her to help you now.”